{"id":21932,"date":"2020-06-04T17:14:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=21932"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:14:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:14:36","slug":"rolls-royce-job-cuts-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=21932","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce job cuts confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just over a fortnight ago (May 20) UNITElive reported<\/a> that Rolls-Royce is to cut 9,000 jobs globally, 3,375 of them in the UK,\u00c2\u00a0by the end of 2020 with more to come in 2021.<\/p>\n

At the time Unite assistant general secretary for manufacturing Steve Turner said,\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe news that Rolls Royce is preparing to throw thousands of skilled, loyal, world class workers, their families and communities under the bus during the worst public\u00c2\u00a0health crisis since 1918 is shameful opportunism.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

Unite feared that Rolls-Royce will do as it has done in the past \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and have\u00c2\u00a0the majority of its planned job cuts fall upon the UK.<\/p>\n

And sadly now those fears have come to pass. Last night (June 3) announced that Rolls-Royce is indeed planning to shed over 3,000 jobs in the UK.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe announcement by Rolls-Royce is another warning sign that the UK is in serious danger of losing its leading position in aerospace, in addition to losing thousands of skilled jobs,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Unite national officer for the aerospace sector, Rhys McCarthy.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite understands the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact on the aviation and\u00c2\u00a0aerospace industries, with the likely scenario of a recovery to passenger demand for long-haul, wide-bodied jets, which Rolls Royce makes the engines for, not expected to\u00c2\u00a0recover to pre-pandemic levels until 2024\/2025.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is why Unite has negotiated with Rolls-Royce the opening of a voluntary severance scheme across the company to mitigate any potential future redundancies and buy sometime so that Rolls-Royce can develop the Plan B that our members and other stakeholders so\u00c2\u00a0desperately need,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 McCarthy explained.<\/p>\n

He continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s defence and power divisions provide some protection in the short-term from further sweeping job losses, but this company urgently needs to develop a diversification plan to\u00c2\u00a0fill the gap in its civil aerospace division.\u00c2\u00a0 It also has to move to\u00c2\u00a0bring new technologies to the\u00c2\u00a0market, building on\u00c2\u00a0the huge assets of the\u00c2\u00a0skills and factories it has in the UK.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

The job loss plans includes the Derby and Inchinnan, Scotland sites. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bRolls-Royce has informed workers they are now opening a voluntary redundancy scheme,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 reported regional officer Debbie Hutchings.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe reality of the situation is that we could see 700 jobs move out of Inchinnan with\u00c2\u00a0vital jobs and skills being lost forever to the Scottish economy. The impact on the supply chain would\u00c2\u00a0be far reaching and it\u00c2\u00a0would have a\u00c2\u00a0devastating impact on communities and families,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she added.<\/p>\n

McCarthy added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe UK government also has a key role in supporting diversification for the aviation and\u00c2\u00a0aerospace industries.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00c2\u00a0need them to be bold with levels of state investment\u00c2\u00a0and support last seen in the post-war period.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMore widely, the UK needs to develop a survival and recovery strategy that includes an aircraft scrappage scheme so that more environmentally friendly aircraft, wings and engines that the UK produces can be brought into service by airlines.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOther countries such as France are already following this path;\u00c2\u00a0if we fail to follow suit\u00c2\u00a0we will see our competitors overtake us and help drive their economies out of the pandemic-induced recession while we lag behind and never catch up,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he concluded.<\/p>\n

This newest confirmation confirms more woe for the already beleaguered aerospace and aviation sectors. It looks like over 30,000 UK jobs are at risk \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with that figure expected to continue to rise.<\/p>\n

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Compiled by Amanda Campbell @amanda_unite <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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